Education and the Rise of the Corporate State

Title: Education and the Rise of the Corporate StateAuthor(s): Joel H. SpringPublisher: CIDOC, CuernavacaISBN: 0807031747, Pages: 234, Year: 1971Search for book at Amazon.com

School and society are inextricably linked. Amen. But what part
of society do the schools really serve, and toward what clearly
defined purposes are they aimed?
The questions have been mulled over at length by a horde of
theoreticians. What makes Professor Joel Spring's turgid but
nevertheless provocative book important is his thesis: that a body
of influential American progressive leaders helped to mold the
image of a highly organized and smoothly working corporate
structure as the model of the good society and, fur­thermore,
that this image "played an influential role in shaping the form and
di­rection of American public education in the twentieth
century."
If the thesis holds water, and he goes to considerable effort to
document it, then despite profuse verbalisms about the sanctity of
the individual, his felt needs, preparation for citizenship, etc.,
etc., the underlying reality glares like a red light —the
purpose of our public schools is to prepare cooperative
individuals, sifted out and conditioned like Huxley's Brave New
Worlders for their respective... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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